Ebola first identified
1976 · Event
Outbreaks in Zaire and Sudan reveal a deadly new haemorrhagic fever, named for the Ebola River.
On these timelines: Medicine & Public Health, Sub-Saharan Africa, Master, Arts and Thoughts
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- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- Discovery of penicillin (1928)
- Jenner's smallpox vaccine (1796)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)
- Lister introduces antiseptic surgery (1865)
- Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica (1543)
- Hippocrates (460 BCE)
- Harvey describes the circulation of the blood (1628)
Around 1976
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)
- Events of 1968 (1968)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Another Brick in the Wall (Part II) (Pink Floyd) (1979)
- Pop music: the 1970s (1970)
- Pop music: the 1980s (1980)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Hey Jude (The Beatles) (1968)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Imagine (John Lennon) (1971)